Your Creative Brain: Seven Steps to Maximize Imagination, Productivity, and Innovation in Your Life
 Your Creative Brain: Seven Steps to Maximize Imagination, Productivity, and Innovation in Your LifeISBN: 978-0-470-54763-2
Hardcover
386 pages
October 2010, Jossey-Bass
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Shelley Carson was raised in a highly creative family, where impromptu plays and the telling of wild, imaginative tales were the norm–as were bouts of alcoholism and days spent searching for where her parents forgot they parked the family car. It was Dr. Carson’s fascination with the bold, colorful minds of her eccentric relatives that fueled her passion to understand creative behavior and drew her to her life’s work–Harvard University where she conducts research, teaches and advises undergraduates. She has won multiple teaching awards for her popular course Madmen, Geniuses, and Harvard Students. Her current research topics include: the interface between creativity and psychopathology,potential genetic components of creativity, the importance of light to the creative mind, how activation of both brain hemispheres through a specific yogic breathing technique affects creativity, and how activation of the non-dominant hemisphere of the brain (usually the right one) affects creativity.
Dr. Carson is a featured blogger for The Huffington Post, with her blog“Creativity in the 21st Century,” and she writes the popular Psychology Today blog, “Life as Art.” She maintains an active speaking schedule outside of the classroom, talking to such groups as the Congressional Biomedical Research Caucus, the National Council on Disability, the Massachusetts Manic Depressive and Depressive Association, and the One Day University lecture series. Since 2006, Dr. Carson has served as a senior consultant and subject matter expert for the Department-of-Defense project innovative online mental health assistance to service members returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
